Genetic Diversity and Dispersal of in Arctic Soils.

is a saprophytic mold and an opportunistic pathogen with a broad geographic and ecological distribution. is the most common etiological agent of aspergillosis, affecting over 8,000,000 individuals worldwide. Due to the rising number of infections and increasing reports of resistance to antifungal therapy, there is an urgent need to understand populations from local to global levels.

Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity.

Yeasts, broadly defined as unicellular fungi, fulfill essential roles in soil ecosystems as decomposers and nutrition sources for fellow soil-dwellers. Broad-scale investigations of soil yeasts pose a methodological challenge as metagenomics are of limited use for identifying this group of fungi. Here we characterize global soil yeast diversity using fungal DNA barcoding on 1473 yeasts cultured from 3826 soil samples obtained from nine countries in six continents.

Fitness distribution and transgressive segregation across 40 environments in a hybrid progeny population of the human-pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans.

The opportunistic human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans includes two varieties, C. neoformans var. grubii and C.